Thursday Roast: flavorful Dec 20, 07, 10:28 a.m.

With all this playful hating on flavorful, who has played along with our loving jokes very well, I figured it was appropriate to start a loving roast of flavorful.

You know the rules. Nothing spiteful or mean spirited.

Have fun. I gotta step out for lunch so hopefully this will have progressed nicely while I'm gone.

GO!

Justice: D.a.n.c.e. Dec 12, 07, 6:59 a.m.

What a great video. Sorry if this has been posted before, I sear... er... filtered.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cf…

MBP won't wake up Dec 10, 07, 1:35 p.m.

Sometimes when I close my MacBook Pro to carry it to a meeting, when I open it the thing will just not wake back up. It goes into some kind of sleep mode. Hitting the space bar, trackpad, nothing. To fix it I have to hold down the power button and hard restart. Is there a function key I should be hitting? Any ideas?

ps. It's current/up-to-date with all it's software/firmware.

drive by Nov 20, 07, 1:02 p.m.

someone just did a drive by past our cubes. holy god... how rude. see what you have to look forward to e?

mbp issue Nov 20, 07, 9:40 a.m.

hey, i'm having a bit of a problem with the 2.33ghz intel core 2 duo macbook pro. when i hit the power button it starts up for about 2 seconds then shuts itself off. i hit the button again and it does the same thing. i press and hold the button for a few seconds while it starts and when i let go it shuts off again. i gotta keep doing it until the f*cker turns itself on. any ideas or quick fixes? also parallels crushed my system last week when it started up and somehow wiped osx from the computer so i had to re-image this bitch. i think microsoft is trying to get back at apple. anything?

my own business Aug 21, 07, 7:37 a.m.

i said ta heck with it and decided i wouldn't freelance anymore, instead i'd open my own business.

i'll be accepting applications to all who feel they are qualified.

here is my building.

catchy name huh?
:)

tornado Aug 23, 07, 12:28 p.m.

by us.

gotta run for cover.

(OO)

cross fingers

aha haaa.... Sep 4, 07, 1:13 p.m.

ugh.

i sent off three concepts to a client on friday. i thought they were fantastic. from our initial meeting i get "we're looking for contemporary, clean, white blah blah then as i'm about to hang up i hear EDGY blurted out in the background."

imagine if you will, if buick were my client.

so i get a response today.

"we're looking for a cutting edge hipster site"

again. imagine if buick rebranded themselves and turned their site into said site above.

it wouldn't work.

i'm not even mad. i'm actually laughing. it's so rediculous. they tell me "NO FLASH" so this is all html and css, then want extreme edgy and cutting edge. hope you like a dog of a site that image heavy as fuck.

this is why i don't care much for freelance.

at least i'm charging by the hour so really, who cares. it's just funny. it would be like my grandfather coming over dressed like kevin federline.

time portal Sep 13, 07, 12:41 p.m.

i believe somehow, after picking up my iphone for a call with a new client, it opened up a time portal back to 1990.

client wants:
- no flash
- animated gif 3D spinning logo
- animated gifs, with fade from one picture to another on the homepage. 6 pics total
- animated gif rollover ads
- scrolling "message" text
- a blinking "what's new" banner

i did my best to not laugh but when they said "and we want it to blink" i busted out laughing.

ah, what a stroll down memory lane of designing for the web in 1990.

oh. did i mention that their current site is one giant image with image maps for links?

why me?

Tourettes Guy Sep 17, 07, 11:09 a.m.

haha. real or fake? i say fake.

either way, i have a new swear word.

"BOB SAGGET!"

banner ad best practices Oct 10, 07, 1:45 p.m.

any links?

i have to do some rich media banner ads and to be honest, it's not really my skill-set and i'm looking for any tips or best practices when doing so.

ie. should i design the ad in illustrator as much as possible to keep as much as possible vector based? are there any little things i can do to help keep the file size below 30k? 50k for the expanded panel?

any ideas?

thanx in advance.

on the road again Oct 15, 07, 12:46 p.m.

just can't wait to get on the road again.

my last day here is either this friday or the next.

"thank you for making us 400k with the website you designed but we just don't have the ability to hire you on fulltime."

mg33 it's lookin like i might be in your neck of the woods sooner than later. :)

New Job! Nov 1, 07, 9:56 a.m.

Signed the last document a few minutes ago and all things have been finalized. I start Monday at my new job and I couldn't be happier.

So, I been gone a couple weeks focusing on freelance and updating my portfolio to help find this new gig. What did I miss?

breadcrumbs Nov 16, 07, 5:29 a.m.

anyone have any examples of fresh solutions? i'd like to see a few and compare. thanks in advance!

? Dec 11, 02, 12:49 p.m.

is anyone out there using it? the company im working for is 'teaching' it to me... starting last night. they throw over 1600 files at me today and tell me to fix the html on some of them. i spent the last 3 hours doing what i could have done in dreamweaver in 10 minutes.

is it just me or does this program suck nuts? i can' believe they're making me use it.

oops strikes again Dec 19, 02, 10:16 a.m.

just got this email from him.

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now you can read or download oops from .pdf version!!!

check it out!!

http://in not going to mention it

bye
alessio [oops]
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oh the f*cking humanity. did he copy our email addresses before he got booted or what?!? am i the only one he sent this spam too?

Belio Magazine? Help... Dec 19, 02, 11:18 a.m.

I just scored this soft cover book from a buddie. It's called BELIO and it has some of the most amazing works of art I've seen. I'm guessing it's released monthly but I'm not sure cause it's in Spanish and I don't speak a lick of it. The web address on the back of the book is

http://www.phonotica.com

If anyone speaks spanish could you help me find out how to subscribe or where to find it? The pictures and works of art alone are worth the price of the mag even though I don't understand it.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

A little help would be... Dec 20, 02, 10:01 a.m.

... nice. Yesterday someone posted two links in the PV-AN for games cause someone was bored.

Game 1 was - Curling, nicely done.

Game 2 was - The motocross one where you're jumping up on shiznit.

Anyone remember the links?

Thanks in advance.

Constructive Criticism Dec 21, 02, 1:21 p.m.

http://www.douglasseyller.com

Second installment and was looking for some artists opinions and criticisms. I'm on a laptop and I'm curious how things look on other computers and monitors. Does the dark green show as green, or black? Does it work right on a mac?

Honest opinions and feedback please. I can take it. Thanks in advance.

FLA to SCR program Jan 8, 03, 4:50 p.m.

As I post this I'm looking on Google. I need a program that will convert a flash file to a SCR file. I'm making a screensaver in flash.

Or, is there an easier way to make one. PC unfortunately.

Thanks in advance.